Shoe-lace fastener



(No Model.)

J. s. MURPHEY. SHOE LACE PASTENER.

Patented July 5, 1892.

UNIT STATES PATENT O FICE.

JOHN S. MURPHEY, OF GREENSBURG, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM I I J. JOHNSTON, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHOE-LACE FAS'TEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 478,122, dated July 5, 1892.

Application filed February 9, 1892- Serial'll'o. 420,865. (No model.)

ends is avoided.

The objects of my invention are to provide a cheap and simple fastener of this class whose binding-disk, though adapted to accommodate broad laces as well as narrow, is not liable to become loose from use, but, to the contrary,is preserved against looseness,and hence is more durable.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter specified, and particularly pointed outin the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a general view of the upper portion of a laced shoe provided with my invention, one lace being fastened and the other unfastened. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail View of the fastener. Fig. 3 is a section of the same. Fig. 4 is a detail of the plate before application to the shoe.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In practicing my invention I stamp from sheet metal a light plate 1, the same having one edge bent substantially at a right angle to form a flange 2, which flange when viewed in crosssection is slightly curved up-.

wardly. At the upper edge of the plate and at its opposite side edges fastening-tongues 3 are formed, and these arebent at a right angle to the plate 1 and rearwardly from the same. A rivet-hole 4 is formed in the plate near one edge of the same and above the flange 2.

5 designates a disk the outer face of which is hollow and the surrounding wall 6 of which is exteriorly convexed to conform with the curvature of the flange 2. The convexed wall is preferably provided with a series of corru-' 5o gations 7, or may be otherwise roughened. A rivet 8 is passed through the bottom or rear wall of the disk and through the rivet-hole 4 of the plate 1, said disk being thereby eccentrically pivoted upon the plate.

The device is applied to the shoe at one side of each of the series of eyelets 9 of the shoe 10, and in so doing the securing-tongues 3 are passed through theleather of the shoe and clinched at the innerv side of the same, whereby the plate becomes immovable. 11 designates the shoe-lace, which is passed through the eyelets in the ordinary manner, and its terminals are finally introduced between the flanges and convexed walls of the two binding-disks, and after being drawn sufficiently tight the disks are pressed down or revolved, so as to bind thereon. Being swung from the outside toward the inner edges of the securing-plates,-it will be'seen 7o that the strain upon the laces will serve to maintain the disks securely in place, and thus the laces are prevented from slipping or becoming detached.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that I have provided a fastener the disk of which is made hollow, and my object in doing this is that I thereby am enabled to employ a shorter rivet or pivot for the disk to revolve upon, and therefore less liability of the same becoming loose or shaky and thus causing jamming. Were the disk solid, a longer rivet would be required, and inasmuch as the rivet has a bearing at but one end the liability to looseness becomes greater as the length of the rivet increases.

Having described my invention, what I claim is The herein-described shoe-lace fastener, the same consisting of a securing-plate pro- 0 vided with integral prongsand having at its edge an outwardly-disposed slightly-curved flange, a binding-disk having itsouter face recessed to form a surrounding annular wall,

and a thin bottom or back, the annular wall In testimony that I claim the foregoing as being convex to conform with the flange and my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in exteriorly roughened throughout its eireumthe presence of two witnesses.

ference, and a rivetpassing through the back JOHN S. MURPHEY. wall of the disk and into the plate and ec- Witnesses: centrically pivoting the disk upon the plate, JOHN C. GIFFEN,

substantially as specified. ROBT. C. GRAFF. 

